The men's combined was held on Tuesday, 14 February, two days after the downhill. The combined competition, as the name suggests, is a combination where the times in the downhill racing and the slalom events are added. One run of downhill and two runs of slalom are used to determine overall ranking in the combined event. All three runs were held in a single day.[1]
| Men's combined at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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 Pictogram for alpine skiing | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Sestriere | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 14 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 60 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:09.35 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Norway's Kjetil André Aamodt was defending Olympic champion from Salt Lake City in 2002, while Benjamin Raich of Austria was the reigning world champion. Raich led the Combined standings on the World Cup entering the Olympics, followed by Michael Walchhofer (Austria) and Bode Miller (USA) in a tie for second.[2]
Miller, the leader after the downhill portion, was disqualified in the first slalom run for straddling a gate. This left Raich in the lead going into the final run of slalom, followed by Ivica Kostelić and young American Ted Ligety. Ligety scorched the final run for the gold medal, while Raich skied out. Aamodt did not start the event after a knee injury, and Filip Trejbal had to withdraw after a spectacular crash which delayed the event for a prolonged period.
These were the last Olympics to use the traditional combined format (one downhill run and two slalom runs). Starting in 2010, the Olympics are scheduled to switch to the "super-combined" format (one run each of downhill & slalom) for the combined event. First run on the World Cup circuit in 2005 at Wengen, the "super-combi" format was first used at the world championships in 2007.
Results edit
The results of the men's combined event in Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Rank | Name | Country | Downhill | Slalom 1 | Slalom 2 | Time | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ted Ligety |  United States
|
1:41.42 | 44.09 | 43.84 | 3:09.35 | +0.00 |
|
Ivica Kostelić |  Croatia
|
1:40.44 | 44.61 | 44.83 | 3:09.88 | +0.53 |
|
Rainer Schönfelder |  Austria
|
1:40.02 | 45.67 | 44.98 | 3:10.67 | +1.32 |
| 4 | Daniel Albrecht |  Switzerland
|
1:40.47 | 45.31 | 44.95 | 3:10.73 | +1.38 |
| 5 | Giorgio Rocca |  Italy
|
1:41.39 | 44.88 | 44.47 | 3:10.74 | +1.39 |
| 6 | Ondřej Bank |  Czech Republic
|
1:40.50 | 45.34 | 45.16 | 3:11.00 | +1.65 |
| 7 | Marc Berthod | Switzerland
|
1:41.24 | 45.21 | 44.77 | 3:11.22 | +1.87 |
| 8 | Pierrick Bourgeat |  France
|
1:41.35 | 45.56 | 44.38 | 3:11.29 | +1.94 |
| 9 | Peter Fill | Italy
|
1:39.22 | 47.46 | 45.53 | 3:12.21 | +2.86 |
| 10 | Kjetil Jansrud |  Norway
|
1:41.55 | 46.02 | 44.75 | 3:12.32 | +2.97 |
| 11 | Markus Larsson |  Sweden
|
1:41.22 | 46.38 | 44.74 | 3:12.34 | +2.99 |
| 12 | Martin Vráblík | Czech Republic
|
1:40.50 | 46.73 | 45.18 | 3:12.41 | +3.06 |
| 13 | Jean-Baptiste Grange | France
|
1:44.05 | 44.63 | 43.83 | 3:12.51 | +3.16 |
| 14 | Noel Baxter |  Great Britain
|
1:42.26 | 45.64 | 44.89 | 3:12.79 | +3.44 |
| 15 | Aleš Gorza |  Slovenia
|
1:41.31 | 46.44 | 45.16 | 3:12.91 | +3.56 |
| 16 | Scott Macartney | United States
|
1:40.06 | 46.82 | 46.17 | 3:13.05 | +3.70 |
| 17 | John Kucera |  Canada
|
1:41.04 | 46.67 | 45.55 | 3:13.26 | +3.91 |
| 18 | Johan Brolenius | Sweden
|
1:43.56 | 45.20 | 44.51 | 3:13.27 | +3.92 |
| 19 | Andrej Jerman | Slovenia
|
1:40.62 | 46.91 | 46.27 | 3:13.80 | +4.45 |
| 20 | Kryštof Krýzl | Czech Republic
|
1:41.47 | 46.62 | 46.09 | 3:14.18 | +4.83 |
| 21 | François Bourque | Canada
|
1:40.50 | 47.52 | 46.23 | 3:14.25 | +4.90 |
| 22 | Aleksandr Khoroshilov |  Russia
|
1:42.35 | 46.92 | 46.19 | 3:15.46 | +6.11 |
| 23 | Cristian Javier Simari Birkner |  Argentina
|
1:43.93 | 45.89 | 46.72 | 3:16.54 | +7.19 |
| 24 | Pavel Chestakov | Russia
|
1:40.41 | 49.11 | 47.32 | 3:16.84 | +7.49 |
| 25 | Ivan Heimshild |  Slovakia
|
1:43.12 | 48.13 | 47.16 | 3:18.41 | +9.06 |
| 26 | Tin Široki | Croatia
|
1:44.75 | 47.40 | 48.01 | 3:20.16 | +10.81 |
| 27 | Jaroslav Babušiak | Slovakia
|
1:43.32 | 48.86 | 48.60 | 3:20.78 | +11.43 |
| 28 | Roger Vidosa |  Andorra
|
1:46.09 | 48.23 | 47.05 | 3:21.37 | +12.02 |
| 29 | Steve Nyman | United States
|
1:40.19 | 47.14 | 55.35 | 3:22.68 | +13.33 |
| 30 | Andrej Šporn | Slovenia
|
1:39.67 | 46.20 | 57.66 | 3:23.53 | +14.18 |
| 31 | Mihail Sediankov |  Bulgaria
|
1:46.10 | 49.11 | 48.69 | 3:23.90 | +14.55 |
| 32 | Claudio Sprecher |  Liechtenstein
|
1:41.01 | 51.77 | 51.30 | 3:24.08 | +14.73 |
| 33 | Natko Zrnčić-Dim | Croatia
|
1:41.23 | 56.55 | 46.37 | 3:24.15 | +14.80 |
| 34 | Mario Matt | Austria
|
1:41.08 | 45.60 | 1:02.10 | 3:28.78 | +19.43 |
| 35 | Florentin-Daniel Nicolae |  Romania
|
1:45.81 | 53.39 | 52.69 | 3:31.89 | +22.54 |
| Manuel Osborne-Paradis | Canada
|
1:39.69 | 50.11 | DNS | |||
| Benjamin Raich | Austria
|
1:40.42 | 44.23 | DNF | |||
| Anton Konovalov | Russia
|
1:45.12 | 56.15 | DNF | |||
| Ivan Ratkić | Croatia
|
1:44.71 | 48.48 | DNF | |||
| Nikolay Skriabin |  Ukraine
|
1:46.63 | 51.21 | DNF | |||
| Renārs Doršs |  Latvia
|
1:44.54 | 52.55 | DNF | |||
| Jorge Mandrú |  Chile
|
1:45.81 | 52.92 | DSQ | |||
| Konstantin Sats | Russia
|
1:41.02 | DNS | ||||
| Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway
|
1:39.26 | DNF | ||||
| Silvan Zurbriggen | Switzerland
|
1:41.08 | DNF | ||||
| Michael Walchhofer | Austria
|
1:39.52 | DNF | ||||
| Ryan Semple | Canada
|
1:41.65 | DNF | ||||
| Lasse Kjus | Norway
|
1:39.63 | DNF | ||||
| Michał Kałwa |  Poland
|
1:42.72 | DNF | ||||
| Stefan Georgiev | Bulgaria
|
1:43.86 | DNF | ||||
| Didier Défago | Switzerland
|
1:38.68 | DNF | ||||
| Alex Antor | Andorra
|
1:43.84 | DNF | ||||
| Sindri M. Pálsson |  Iceland
|
1:46.04 | DNF | ||||
| Alexander Heath |  South Africa
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1:47.62 | DNF | ||||
| Patrick Staudacher | Italy
|
1:40.52 | DNF | ||||
| Bode Miller | United States
|
1:38.36 | DSQ | ||||
| Nikolai Hentsch |  Brazil
|
1:45.42 | DSQ | ||||
| Kjetil André Aamodt | Norway
|
DNS | |||||
| Filip Trejbal | Czech Republic
|
DNF | |||||
| Jono Brauer |  Australia
|
DNF |
References edit
- ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 2006 Turin Winter Games: Men's Combined". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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